Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step was taken when G.E.'s Vincent J. Schaefer turned a cloud into snow by pelting it from an airplane with pellets of dry ice (TIME, Nov. 25). G.E. then discovered that dry ice is not necessary.. A child's popgun shot into a supercooled cloud works almost as well. The air expanding out of the gun starts snowflakes forming. One night not long ago, G.E.'s Dr. Bernard Vonnegut walked out of his front door into a below-freezing fog. He fired his popgun once. For 30 feet the fog turned into snowflakes...
Stop the Fog. But dry ice and popgun explosions are shortlived instruments. What G.E. snowmen wanted was something that would hang around in the air waiting for a supercooled cloud. They discovered in the laboratory that snowflakes form more readily if they have something like ice to crystallize on. So they tossed all sorts of powdered substances into the fog in their laboratory "cold chamber." Silver iodide did the trick magnificently, turning the fog to snow. Silver iodide crystals are hexagonal, as snow crystals are. Apparently snowflakes recognize the kinship and are fooled into hanging on. An infinitesimal whiff...
What new-broomer Claxton had to say dispelled the cloud of rumors that had fogged the services since they were integrated* (TIME, Dec. 23). It had set brass hats to jittering (none would be dropped under Claxton's plan), had lowered morale in the ranks. The prime purpose of the new plan, said Brooke Claxton, was "to keep our defense establishment sufficiently flexible so it would fit into any plan of defense or any form of disarmament. . . ." It would also fit in with plans to standardize weapons with the U.S. and Britain...
Remorse over the unilateral quality of American policy in the Pacific must not be allowed to cloud the full dangers of this claim. On the surface, the existence of this Russian base within 15 hours flying time of the American industrial heart is inimitable to American security. Soviet apologists will have difficulty finding justification in American demands anywhere. But the full measure of the gravity of this claim lies in the frame of mind that gives the Soviets license to crease treaty obligations at will, or under the flimsiest moral case since the phony Polish invasion of Germany...
After an autumn walk along the Arno in Florence he wrote his Ode to the West Wind; in Pisa The Cloud and To a Skylark...